NGC 6557
NGC 6557
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
259 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 259 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6557 as it looked roughly 259 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 4747Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4641Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6653Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4864Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4647Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4641Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 6653Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4864Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4647Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).